Has any one heard I am worried this hurricane is going to be in Georgia on Tuesday? Thats where my layover is in route to mexico for my banding.

Andrea, please calm down!!!! You're going to make yourself sick before you even leave your house. Everything is going to be fine! You have a competent surgeon who's done this many, many times. You have excellent reports from several of his patients. Your flight to and from Mexico will be uneventful. The driver will not forget you. (This is how he feeds his family.) Your anesthesiologist will give you something for nausea. (They don't want you throwing up.) Your surgery will be routine. The little aches and pains will be less each day. You'll get through the liquid faze and survive. You'll be so busy trying to get all that water in and time will fly. Then, suddenly, one day, you'll realize that you have more energy and feel better than you have for years. Your clothes will get too baggy. You'll have to buy new ones that fit - in a smaller size! You'll start feeling better and better and better - physically, emotionally, and spiritually! You'll realize that you Love Your Band!

I want you to smile and think about these dancing bananas as you "nod off" for your banding...:banana :banana :banana :banana :banana :banana :banana

You're going to be fine!

Marie,

that was an awsome pep talk and you are right Andrea you will get thru this just fine and be on your way to a new you.. I loved the second part of that post cause it was just the pep talk that I needed to read tonight as well... I sometimes get a little impatient with myself and need to remember that soon I will have more energy, pep, pazzaz and ye ha a new wardrobe and of course much smaller than the one that I have now.. my biggest downfall is that I am not patient at all I mean that I just want to see results fast and I know that this is a slow process.. so that I am working on as well.. but I do love my band and am very gald I did it and would do it all over again..

Congratulations,Jeanie, you have lost a pound for every single day that you've been banded! That is absolutely amazing! I get impatient too and want to hurry up and fix this. I have to remind myself that I didn't get in this shape overnight and it will take a while to undo. But we've already taken the first positive step. We were some of the lucky ones that were able to get a band. We WILL make it - one day at a time!

Thanks I guess I needed to hear that!

Andrea, please don't take offense. I'm not picking on you. It's normal to be nervous. I've never met anyone who likes surgery. But please try to think of the end result. You're going to be so much healthier! (((Hugs)))

Thanks so much!! I needed the reality check.